Re: Problem trying to implement generics.

[Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> Brian Rogoff (bpr@shell5.ba.best.com) wrote:
> 
> : Suffice to say, I disagree. The following is fine
> 
> : while (iter.hasMore()) {
> :   X := iter.getNext();
> :   // do stuff with X
> : } while; // optional :-)
> 
> Yes, really fine. I've just run the equivalent of
> 
>   int c = 0;
>   while (c < 1000) {
>     c += 2;
>   } while (0);
> 
> through C and Java compilers (HP/GNU/IBM). What fun!

Interesting. 

> The code produced is the same irrespective of this nice
> C "end while" construct :-)  So the brackets vs. begin/end
> discussion is OBE?

Well, the whole thing is somewhat whimsical. I personally prefer this
aspect of Ada syntax but it's very, very low on my list, so if I were 
voting on some new language design I'd probably vote to keep begin-end 
but if the rest of the world wants {} instead so be it. 

I'd really like to use the {} for something else, and there are only a few 
symmetric bracket pairs to choose from. 

-- Brian